Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock
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Good morning all!
It’s cooler and less humid here yay! The horses and chooks will be happier.
I’ll catch you all later
It’s cooler and less humid here yay! The horses and chooks will be happier.
I’ll catch you all later
I am on the Synopsis conversation, and it does help me frequently. I was just trying to “really” read everything for the past month or so. But don’t get a lot of time to be on and y’all talk a lot.
I'm so sorry you lost Sassy, and I'm sure she enjoyed every single moment you gave her during those two months.
I always feel particularly sad when I see a red hybrid layer die too soon of reproductive disease or cancer. Like so many chicken keepers, I began my chicken keeping journey with them and it's heartbreaking that just a little time after you discover how endearing they are, you find out that they have been made by humans with built-in obsolescence.
Oh I am so sad to hear about Sassy. It seems our favourite friends always seem to leave us to soonest.
Rest In Peace beautiful wee chookie.
Wheelbarrows are the best
If filled with hay they become an awesome nest spot. And of course the handles make lovely roosts and places to leave sticky smelly presents for us Hoomans 
I am ever so glad for my mutts, but worry extremely about the Azurs, and those ‘coloured egg layers’. They seem healthy enough, but they are only young.
Hopefully the Orpingtons are not heavy layers and live a good long life like Hattie
Question: those Marans hybrids you have there, are they a hybrid to lay lots of eggs? How are they doing? I still would like a Marans but they are hard to get here; I can get a hybrid Marans but again they are bred to lay lots of eggs.
Kara has a reproductive issue. She isn't laying anymore and hasn't been for three months, and it looks like she may have ascites. When we first took her to the vet last December they found nothing wrong and now we are more or less resigned to see her die young because my partner isn't ready to have her implanted. She doesn't act unwell, except she is more easily tired than the other chickens.
I am ever so glad for my mutts, but worry extremely about the Azurs, and those ‘coloured egg layers’. They seem healthy enough, but they are only young.
Hopefully the Orpingtons are not heavy layers and live a good long life like Hattie
Question: those Marans hybrids you have there, are they a hybrid to lay lots of eggs? How are they doing? I still would like a Marans but they are hard to get here; I can get a hybrid Marans but again they are bred to lay lots of eggs.
And Lilly lays almost every day. She had a serious bumble foot issue that is still latent, a nasty abscess on her tummy that's healed, she's plucking her feathers off...but apart from that she is doing great and very active.
I would not have gotten them had I known they would lay so much.
Since the breeders I got them from is obviously not a good one, they may have bad genetics and not be representative of that hybrid type. But I would think twice about it, or maybe try to see if you can find people who bought them from where you intend to get them.
Kara.
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Spurred by a Cactus Spine
Mugs Monday after being gone for a week
The juveniles may be cute, but they are fighting a lot these days.
Pecking order is coming in!
The juveniles may be cute, but they are fighting a lot these days.
Pecking order is coming in!
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